Foot-warming stirrup.



J. L. EDGELL & G. W. COOK.

FOOT WARMING STIRRUP.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 19, 1915.

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JOHN LOUIS EDGELL AND GEORGE WAYNE COOK, OF OGEANA, "WEST VIRGINIA.

FOOT-WARMING STIRRU'P.

1 ,1 72,266. Specification! of Letters Patent Patented Feb. 22, 1916.

Application filed February 19, 1915. Serial No. 9,363.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN LOUIS EDGELL and GEORGE W'AYNE Coon, citizens of the United States, residing at Oceana, in the county of Vyoming and State of Vest Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Foot-lVarming Stirrups, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in foot warming stirrups for use in connection with a saddle and for keeping the feet of a horseman warm in cold weather. the object of the invention being to provide an improved stirrup of this kind which is cheap and simple, requires but little attention and which greatly promotes the comfort of the here 2-3 are respectively provided. The walls of the body have rabbets 8 in their upper sides to receive the sides of the pivoted top members 3. Said top member is here shown as provided with air openings 9. An opening 10 is also provided at one end of the body. The rod l is integral with the side members 11 of the stirrup loop the stirrup strap 12 being connected to the upper end of the loop in the usual way.

The hollow body is adapted to receive charcoal or other fuel which may be burned therein to keep the foot of the rider warm, or within the scope of our invention any suitable heating medium or device may be placed in the hollow body.

The pivotally mounted top member enables the fuel, or heating medium or device to be readily placed in or removed from the hollow body that forms the tread or bottom of the stirrup.

Having thus described our invention, we claim A stirrup comprising a hollow body forming a tread member, adapted to receive a heating medium and provided with a fixed top member and a movable top member, said top members being provided at their opposing ends with overlapping lugs arranged in line with each other and a stirrup loop The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of a foot warming stirrup constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the same. 7

In accordance with our invention we provide a hollow body 1 which is made of suitable metal and is preferably lined o-r covered with asbestos or other suitable nonmember having a bar at its lower side eX- conductor. This hollow body is here shown tending through the bores of said lugs and as substantially elliptical in plan and its?" 7 ;forming the pintle of pivotal element of top, which forms the tread of the stirrup}; the movable top member. and on which the foot of the rider is placed In testimony whereof we affix our signacomprises a fixed member 2 at one end of arcs in presence of two witnesses. the body and a pivoted member 3 which JOHN LOUIS EDGELL.

extends to the opposite end of the body said I members being pivotally connected together TAYNE 600K by a rod l which extends transversely of the body and passes through the bores in overi lapping lugs 5-6 with which the top mem- Witnesses Geo. W. CoNLnY,

ARLIE L. CHAMBERS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

